Hydril / Reef Station median real estate price is $208,109, which is less expensive than 98.5% of California neighborhoods and 79.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Hydril / Reef Station is currently $1,690, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 95.2% of California neighborhoods.
Hydril / Reef Station is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Avenal, California.
Hydril / Reef Station real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Hydril / Reef Station, the current vacancy rate is 2.1%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 84.9% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Hydril / Reef Station is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 23.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
In the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 26.2% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.4% of the adult residents in the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Unpopulated, and rural, the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 93.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Hydril / Reef Station is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 86.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (45.7%) than are found in 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood in Avenal are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood, 40.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.2%), and 13.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 86.6% of households. Some people also speak English (10.9%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood in Avenal, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (93.0%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (1.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.3%). In addition, 45.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Hydril / Reef Station neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (68.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (26.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.